UN Security Council Fails to Ease Suffering in Gaza

united nations - As the death toll and suffering mounts for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Security Council remained blocked Wednesday on trying to bring any relief to them, while the Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded accusations.

"The pace of death, of suffering, of destruction, of breaches of international law cannot be exaggerated," U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told an emerge